Duty Station: Lungujja,
Cosovo, Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General
Manager
Adrikos has been in existence
for over 40 years. It is our mission to produce high quality Ugandan products,
made in Uganda, for Ugandans. We pursue excellence in ourselves, services and
products with an aim to give you Quality at a budget price. Through creation of
jobs and leveraging technology we are improving lives and also contributing to
the economic development and growth of our home country. It is the passion and
the fearless pursuit of a dream by the founders to grow this company into
Uganda’s leading distillery.
Job Summary: The Marketing Manager/ Business Development
Manager is responsible for all business development activities by researching
and developing marketing opportunities and plans; implementing sales plans; and
supervising regional managers.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Accomplish
marketing targets by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching,
counseling, sales team communicating job expectations; planning,
monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and
reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures for the
marketing department. - Achieve
marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and
sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews;
preparing and completing action plans. - Implement
production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards;
resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining
system improvements; implementing change. - Meet
marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements;
preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances;
initiating corrective actions. - Determine
annual and gross-profit plans by forecasting and developing annual sales
quotas for regions; projecting expected sales volume and profit for
existing and new products; analyzing trends and results to establish
pricing strategies; recommending selling prices; monitoring costs,
competition, supply, and demand. - Accomplish
marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and
evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs,
developing field sales action plans. - Identify
marketing opportunities by identifying consumer requirements; defining
market, competitor’s share, and competitor’s strengths and weaknesses;
forecasting projected business; establishing targeted market share. - Improve
product marketability and profitability by researching, identifying, and
capitalizing on market opportunities; improving product packaging;
coordinating new product development. - Sustain
rapport with key accounts by making periodic visits; exploring specific
needs; anticipating new opportunities to the respective depots . - Provide
information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends. - Ensure
good retention strategy for the existing clientele. - Clientele
growth and retention as per the overall target through relationship
management & direct sales bearing in mind the KYC standards. - Ensure
compliance to internal control as per operational guidelines to
avoid/minimize loss of revenue and prevention of frauds and forgeries. - Conduct
competitors-on market intelligence, closer understanding of their
competitive activities - Potential
customers whose view of business must be assessed and taken into account
when making a business proposal. - Perform
any other duties assigned to you by the manager from time to time
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
applicant should hold BBA- marketing or any other business related course
with a major in marketing and chartered qualifications are added advantage - A
minimum of five or more years’ experience in a busy organization in the
same industry - High
degree of personal integrity - Concern
for quality and order - Team
work and co-operation - High
confidentiality levels - Excellent
people skills - Customer
care skills - Self
organization
If you feel that you are the
right candidate for this position, please post your updated CV at
westniledistilling@adriko.com and copy
to jannat@adriko.com
Please quote the position you
are applying for in the subject line.
Deadline: 10th March 2015.
NB:
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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